The Falkirk Wheel
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| The Falkirk Wheel |
This picture of the Falkirk Wheel is for sale.
It comes as a canvas, a framed print, a framed mounted print or an acrylic.
A long exposure photograph of the Falkirk Wheel lifting a canal barge. The wheel, the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world,connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.It comes as a canvas, a framed print, a framed mounted print or an acrylic.
The Wheel has an overall diameter of 35m, with two opposing arms extending from the central axle. Each arm lifts a gondola filled with water, and a barge. The combined weight of the two gondolas, the water and the barges is 500 tonnes. Miraculously, each half turn of the wheel, lifting a water filled gondola plus a barge requires only 22.5 kilowatts, or the same power as it takes to boil 8 kettles. This is down to clever application of the archimedes principle.
The original prototype of the Wheel was built using Lego belonging to the 8 year old daughter of the architect, Tony Kettle.
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